David Davidovich Burlyuk

David Davidovich Burlyuk (born July 9 [July 21, New Style], 1882, Semirotovshchina, Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire (now in Kharkiv, Ukraine)—died Jan. 15, 1967, Long Island, N.Y., U.S.) was a Russian poet, painter, critic, and publisher who became the centre of the Russian Futurist movement, even though his output in the fields of poetry and painting was smaller than that of his peers. Burlyuk excelled at discovering talent and was one of the first to publish...